Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-11-04
CITY AFFAIRS.
Regular Aeetins Of the City Council Con.
siderable Business Transacted.

council, Wednesday evening, the following
business was transacted
ordered, That the overseers of the poor
oe and hereby are instructed that after paving
Mr. Lowe s347.00 for finishing rooms in the
attlc OF the almshouse, to eIpend the balance
OF the money appropriated 81 .00) for heat
ing and furnishing said rooms and painting
bath room
Read and passed in concurrence
Ordered, That the supervisor of schools be
and hereby is directed to open the school in
the Stone school house, so called, at the
commencement of the winter term.
Read and passed in concurrence
Ordered, That the mayor be instructed to
make such arrangements with the Augusta
" alter Company as shall continue the daily
supply OF water in the watering trough stu
ated at the corner of Northern Avenue and
Washington street
Read and passed in concurrence.
Ordered, That f. NJ Boynton be and here
by Is authorized to erect two hitching posts
on the east side of water street in front of
his store in Edwards Co. block, for the bet
ter protection of the sidewalk
Read and passed in concurrence.
Ordered, That the street commits sioner for
structed to repair the Kennebec bridge drive
way. Also to keep the same swept and dust
ed.
Read and passed in concurrence.
Ordered. That James J. Maher be and he
hereby is authorized to erect two hitching
posts in front of his residence on Chestnut
street and one in front of his store in Edwards
Co.'S block for the protection of sidewalk.
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Ordered, That the city treasurer pay all
taxes assessed on real estate TO the heirs of
Enoch Drawn, and apply the same to tax
deed on file, said real estate having been sold
to the city of Augusta, for non payment of
taxes for previous years.
Read and passed in concurrence.
Ordered, That the street commissioner for
the western district be and hereby is ordered
to open the extension of Child street in ac-
cordance with the survey of the city engineer
doing what in his judgment is necessary on
said street to enable the families thereon to
get to and from their homes through the
winter and until such time as the street can
be properly constructed.
Read and passed in concurrence.
Child street, as run and described October
| IL, 1887, by j. W. Patterson, street engi-
neer
Commencing at stone bound in the east
line of Gage street extended and run south
on the east line of said Gage street 80 feet
and inches, to point in range with the
fence on the north side of the homestead of
the late Sylvanus Caldwell to the northwest
corner of said homestead on State street,
to be 30 feet and seven inches in width and
north of said last described line.
Ordered That tho streat ponmis sionar for
the western district be and he is hereby di-
rected to have distributed through the winter
on such streets as he thinks needed ON Cush-
noe Heights six hundred loads of gravel the
cost of the same to be charged to the appro-
priation of 1888.
Read and referred to the committee on
highways and street commissioner for western
district,
Ordered, That the Street Commissioner
for the Eastern District, be- and is hereby
directed to have distributed during the win
ter, Oh such streets as he thinks needy, on
the East Side of the river, five hundred
| loads of gravel, the cost of same to be
charged to the appropriation for 1888.
Read and referred to the committee on
highways and street commissioner for
Eastern District.
The following letter from Payson Tucker,
Esq, Manager of Maine Central Railroad
Company was received:
PORTLAND, Oct. 4, 1887.
Col. Henry G.. Staples. Augusta.
Dear Sir: Yours of Goth ult., referring
to station at foot of Capitol street, Augusta,
is received.
If the proposed improvements mentioned
in your letter are made by your city to Capt.
awning over it for the convenience of travel
lers by our Augusta and Gardiner accomo-
dation trains. Yours truly,
Payson Tucker,
General Manager.
Ordered, That the street commissioner for
the Western District be- and he is hereby
directed to put Capitol street in a proper con-
dition for public travel from State street to
the Maine Central Railroad, removing all
bushes and other Instructions therefrom, and
easing the grade of the street on the approach
to the track. the work to be performed at
once, the cost of same not to exceed twenty
five dollars.
Read and referred to the committee on
highways.
The following communication was re-
ceived and referred to Committee on city
buildings:
AUGUsTA, Nov. 2, 1887.
| Hon. Geo f.. Macomber, Mayor of Augusta
Dear Sir; We respectfully ask permits
sion to attach to the ends of the kennebec
Bridge, two painted signs, each about five
feet square Our desire is to place one al
each end. on the outside of the bridge, in the
space now unoccupied, To meet, perhaps
the onlyobjection that may appear viz that
the multiplying of signs might become a
| nuisance, we suggest that we may be allowed
| to pay to the city some nominal price for the
/ privilege which shall restrict the same to us.
| Yours respectfully. Townsend Beck.
The following communication was re-
/ ceived and referred to the committee on
street lights
! The subscriber respectfully represents
/ that the street lamp heretofore located on
Stone street. in the vicinity of the Cony
! High School building has been discontinued
without authority; that a street light is in
progress of being erected in front of the new
dwelling house of DIR. Harlow on said street,
on the side of the street opposite the sidewalk
without authority from the city council; that
| if only one light is to be maintained on Stone
street. between Cony street and Middle
/ street, it should. to be of any value to the
public. be located midway between Cony and
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! sidewalk
| The subscriber therefore prays that you
will direct the street light to be placed in its
| former location, or cause a street light to be
| located ON Stone street near, and little
south of the entrance to Cony High School
grounds. on the west side of said Stone
street, and that the street light in process of
erection. near DIR. Harlow's building, if it is
to be maintained by the city. be located on
! the west side of the street.
Samuel W Lane
! Augusta, Nov. ?, 1887.
The following petition was received and
! referred to the committee or schools.
/ To the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of
Augusta, in Common Council assembled
Having learned that it is the intention of
the supervisor of schools or this city to close
the school in the Hospital district and oblge
the scholars, some thirty in number, to go to
the Williams district to attend school,
your petitioners, who are residents of the
school district. respectfully represent that
many of the scholars of this district are so